Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
S.T.E.M. IS BLACK HISTORY
STEM IS BLACK HISTORY
Black history involves more than dates and personages. Much more! Learn it, apply it, teach and praise it!
It also involves some environmental-altering subject matters, including those named below, known today by the acronym, STEM-- science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Science may be represented, in part, by geology and astronomy, for example. Astronomy involves calibrating their daily lives by the observations recorded while witnessing the rising and the setting of stars and constellations, from which they produced the first world's calendar in 4241 B.C.
Geology is the identifying of rock strata and formations containing granite, marble, basalt or other stones needed in their megalithic structures as building blocks. From these, they built the great pyramid at least 3,000 B.C.
Technology is represented by the tools needed in the quarrying of these multi-ton stones by the thousands; and the moving of the precisely quarried stones into place in temple construction with absolute accuracy. Such excellence is ritualized in worldwide secret societies, who clandestinely pay homage to the foregoing.
Engineering encompasses the foregoing, as well as temple and pyramidal alignment and orientation in consonance with the stars. It also involved the building of roads, ports, ships, and management manuals needed to facilitate men and materials movement, feeding, housing and storage.
Mathematics is subsumed in the precision and geometry exhibited in all of the above, which Plato praised as preexisting that of Greece by untold millennia in his book, THE LAWS. Without the mathematics, little of the above would be possible.
In short, these few examples attest to what the most ancient papyri, documents and monuments already confirm, that STEM IS AFRICAN, Nubian, black, and it predates all others in time and in space.
This is no reason to brag or to boast, in retribution for the millennial lies told by certain Western Europeans, Arab conquerors and others, who later appropriated these offerings, while enslaving our forebears, who themselves had lost such knowledge!
Instead, the best retribution is to relearn our heritage embodied, in part, in STEM, so that we can resume our rightful place in the Earth, and contribute to its redemption and salvation.